Ronald Joseph "Ron" Mulock (born 11 January 1930) was an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

New South Wales Legislative Assembly

The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The other chamber is the Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney...

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Early years

Mulock was born in the Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

 suburb of Darlinghurst

Darlinghurst, New South Wales

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 and was educated at De La Salle College (now Casimir Catholic College), Marrickville

Marrickville, New South Wales

Marrickville, a suburb of Sydney's Inner West is located 7 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the state of New South Wales, Australia and is the largest suburb in the Marrickville Council local government area...

 and received an LL.B

Bachelor of Laws

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 from the University of Sydney

University of Sydney

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 in 1957. He practised as a solicitor in Penrith

Penrith, New South Wales

Penrith is a suburb in western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Penrith is located west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the City of Penrith...

 before entering Parliament. He was an alderman at Penrith City Council

City of Penrith

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 for six years, including three terms as Mayor.

Political career

Mulock represented Nepean

Electoral district of Nepean (New South Wales)

Nepean was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, originally created in 1859, and named after the Nepean River. It was abolished in 1904 with the downsizing of the Assembly after Federation. Nepean was recreated in 1927 and abolished again in...

 from 1971 to 1973, Penrith

Electoral district of Penrith

Penrith is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It has been represented by Stuart Ayres of the Liberal Party of Australia since the 2010 by-election...

 from 1973 to 1981 and St Marys

Electoral district of St Marys

St Marys was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1981 to 1988 and 1991 to 1999, which included the suburb of St Marys and replaced Mount Druitt. It was abolished in 1999.-Members for St Marys:...

 from 1981 until his retiremment in 1988. When the Wran

Neville Wran

Neville Kenneth Wran, AC, CNZM, QC was the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 until 1986. He was National President of the Australian Labor Party from 1980 to 1986 and Chairman of both the Lionel Murphy Foundation and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation from 1986...

 government was elected in May 1976, he became Minister of Justice (until October 1978) and Minister for Services (until February 1977). He was also Minister for Housing from February 1977 to October 1978. He was Minister for Mineral Resources from October 1978 to October 1981 and Minister for Education from October 1981 to 1984. In February 1984, Mulock became Deputy Premier until the defeat of the Unsworth

Barrie Unsworth

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government in March 1988. He was also Minister for Health from 1984 to 1986, Minister for Transport from 1986 to 1987 and Attorney General from 1987 to 1988.